None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

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Henry Rollins I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

Sidney Poitier I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

John Mayer Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Artur Davis This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

China Mieville I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

Rudy Giuliani Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Fred Saberhagen I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

George Aiken If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Henry Reed People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Jim Henson At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Colin Powell I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Satyajit Ray At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Vinton Cerf In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.